In
terms of the results of a pesticide survey lately conducted by CCM, Jingangmycin,
isoprothiolane and propiconazole•difenoconazole 30% EC (Brand name: Armure)
were the mainstream rice fungicides in the early rice planting of Hengyang,
Yueyang and Changde of Hunan Province in 2012.
CCM
has recently completed a survey of pesticide application for 2012 early rice
planting in Hengyang City (Hengyang), Yueyang City (Yueyang) and Changde City
(Changde) of Hunan Province. In the survey, a total of 900 farmers in these
three regions were interviewed. The survey covered 69 pesticides, including 34
insecticides, 19 herbicides, 14 fungicides, 1 rodenticide and 1 molluscicide.
In this issue, Fungicides China News 1305, CCM focuses on the
application of fungicides in these three key rice planting regions of Hunan.
According
to the survey, the market value of fungicide products was the highest in the
early rice planting of Hengyang in 2012 among the three regions, amounting to
about USD22.74 million (RMB140 million), accounting for 18.7% of the total
(pesticides' market value in the region). Though the market value of fungicide
products was the lowest in the early rice planting of Yueyang, around USD11.37
million (RMB70 million), the region's application proportion of fungicides in
the total pesticides ranked No. 2, reaching 15.9%. As for Changde, the
application proportion of its fungicides in early rice planting was only 15.4%,
lower than those of the other two regions.
In
general, the use volume of jingangmycin, one of the conventional rice
fungicides, was the largest in the early rice planting of Hengyang, Yueyang and
Changde of Hunan in 2012, thanks to its sound performance-to-price ratio and
widespread application. It is followed by isoprothiolane, a product mainly used
to control rice blast, one of the most serious rice diseases, and propiconazole•difenoconazole
30% EC (Brand name: Armure) produced by Syngenta, a world-leading crop
protection company. In addition, tricyclazole, mancozeb, iprobenfos,
carbendazim, kasugamycin, etc., have a certain market share in the early rice
planting of the three major rice production regions of Hunan last year.
Specifically,
the application of isoprothiolane was the highest in the early rice planting of
Yueyang in 2012, accounting for 30.0% of the total (rice fungicides). It is
particularly worth noting that in the early rice planting of Changde,
jingangmycin's application proportion reached as high as 53.2% last year, far
above the levels in Hengyang and Yueyang. And Armure, the most popular brand of
rice fungicides, received much favorable comments from the local rice growers
in Hunan, owing to its excellent prevention and control efficacy on rice
diseases, especially rice sheath blight; the application proportions of this
fungicide in the early rice planting of Hengyang, Yueyang and Changde in 2012
were 16.5%, 20.6% and 9.2% respectively.
As
a matter of fact, most rice growers in Hengyang, Yueyang and Changde have
almost no brand awareness in choosing a pesticide. Thus, only a few rice
fungicide brands were mentioned in this survey, and the top three ones in terms
of mentioned times in the survey were Armure, Nativo (trifloxystrobin•tebuconazole
75% WDG) and Horizon (tebuconazole 430g/L SC). The latter two belong to Bayer,
one of the well-known multinational companies. Worse still, many farmers in
Hengyang, Yueyang and Changde know little about preventing and controlling rice
diseases by good rice fungicide brands from domestic agrochemical companies.
Hunan
is one of the major rice producing provinces in China, with a large market for
rice fungicides. To capture more market shares, not only multinational
companies but also domestic agrochemical ones need to continuously strengthen
the training of fungicide-using level for the local farmers and help them build
a good brand awareness.
